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Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, had always worried that his company’s victory last year in a multimillion-dollar legal battle against Google’s app store monopoly wouldn’t be enough to open up competition. Even if Google could no longer keep alternative marketplaces out of Android, phone manufacturers could make them …

“What we’ve seen is criminal groups who are invested in this region here, looking beyond this region for establishing similar operations,” Hofmann says of the international expansion. The wealthy, authoritarian city of Dubai, within the United Arab Emirates, has emerged since 2021 as the largest epicenter of pig butchering outside …

The four tech giants have presided over the consortium since they announced it in 2016, when Western governments were berating them for allowing Islamic State to post gruesome videos of journalists and humanitarians being beheaded. Now with a staff of eight, GIFCT—which the board organized as a US nonprofit in …

After being named a “Servant of God” in 2013, Acutis reached the second rung on the ladder to sainthood when he was venerated by Pope Francis in 2018. His body was exhumed and brought to a tomb in Assisi where he still lies today, dressed in his trademark ’90s teenager …

Raspberry Pi, the company that sells tiny, cheap, single-board computers, is releasing an add-on that is going to open up several use cases — and yes, because it’s 2024, there’s an AI angle. Called the Raspberry Pi AI Camera, this image sensor comes with on-board AI processing and is going to …

There’s been an avalanche of Spider-Man 4 rumors lately, which suggest that Sony and Marvel are getting closer to actually announcing the sequel’s release date. The highly-anticipated movie has been in the making since No Way Home premiered in late 2021, but we still lack a proper reveal. That’s actually …

Elon Musk’s X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity.  The asset manager, which helped Musk acquire the social network formerly known as Twitter, has further reduced the value of its holding in X to …

The AirPods 4 offer a more comfortable fit, more portable build, and better audio quality — all for a relatively low price. Pros Comfortable fit Solid audio quality Apple features like Automatic Switching Reasonably-priced Cons No wireless charging Limited continuous battery life Buy From List Price Sale Price $129 $119 …

AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation The AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation bridge the gap between the base AirPods and the AirPods Pro. How do they perform? Pros ANC is actually helpful Solid audio quality Wireless charging Comfortable fit Highly portable Buy From List Price Sale Price $179 $169 …

Unlike many of you, I actually made it all the way to the end of the first season of Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings prequel series — which is why, once Season 2 of The Rings of Power finally arrived on Prime, I felt invested enough to dive back …